Real 5G probably not until 2022 or later but things called 4.5G and 5G will be deployed sooner

The actual benefit of going from 3G to 4G mobile have been disappointing. Michael Peeters, wireless CTO at Alcatel-Lucent, is therefore frustrated with the industry’s approach to 5G technology. Companies are throwing into 5G pretty much everything that was not included in earlier technology evolutions, with examples including massive MIMO, machine-to-machine (M2M) and millimeter-wave technologies. …

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Making fuel from sunlight

Researchers have developed a reactor that can rapidly produce fuel from sunlight, using carbon dioxide and water, plus a compound called ceric oxide. “High-Flux Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of CO2 and H2O Using Nonstoichiometric Ceria,” by W.C. Chueh et al. Science, January 2011 Because solar energy is available in large excess relative to current rates of …

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